DISNEY’S Lion King roars back in 3D; Johnny English Makes Spooks look like a picnic; and Steven Spielberg turns Jamie Bell into Tin Tin. Performance of the week is Brendan Gleeson who turns The Blue lamp green.

Odeon, Dumfries

Johnny English, aka Rowan Atkinson, continues as the worst special agent ever in Johnny English Reborn (PG) for late shows from tomorrow until Sunday with the matinees and early shows taken with the reissue of Disney’s The Lion King in 3D (U).

The film was always near perfect but the 3D conversion adds a welcome perspective and depth. Of course you get Rowan Atkinson here too as the voice of Zazoo the busybody Toucan who is supposed to protect the young lion cub Simba but falls down on the job.

The Elton John songs are now indelible thanks to the stage version and this is a welcome chance to re-visit an old friend.

From Monday Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson recreate the Belgian boy detective/reporter of the Herge comic strip books in The Adventures of Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn 3D (PG).

Using the motion capture system this emerges as a cross between animation and live action and frees Spielberg to let his imagination loose on fantastic seascapes and fast action. The wonder boy is voiced by Jamie Bell and his hard-drinking companion Captain Haddock is the ubiquitous Andy Serkis with a Scottish accent.

On hand too are Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as the inept Thomson Twins secret agents and Daniel Craig as the baddie with the famous doggie Snowy doing a scene-stealing act.

It’s all to do with a lost family treasure and dastardly deeds on the high seas. If the 3D makes you sea sick the 2D version is also showing.

Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Dumfries

Brendan Gleeson gives a gem of a performance in, The Guard (15) tonight and tomorrow.

He plays the eccentric, grizzled, but worldly-wise Sergeant Gerry Boyle, a veteran in the Irish police in a small coastal town on the western side of County Galway.

When his new assistant goes missing and there are reports of drug smuggling, he is saddled with an FBI agent (Don Cheadle) who plays by the book.

Boyle tore up the rule book and spat it out years ago and makes up his own as he pursues the criminal gangs. This is a wonderfully witty, foul-tongued but frequently moving story of a man who is the author of his own survival.

The plot may be a bit thin and formulaic but Gleeson turns it into pure gold.

On Monday and Wednesday, In A Better World (15) is the Denmark/Swedish film that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film and is a family drama that flits between war torn Africa and the bully battle ground of a Danish School.

Saintly doctor Anton is a pacifist who patches up the wounds of a brutal warlord in Africa. His son Elias is bullied at school where he struggles to cope with his parents’ divorce, but his new friend Christian sorts out the bully violently.

When his father returns and is involved in a neighbourly spat, he turns the other cheek but Elias and Christian believe that right is might and plot revenge.

Two wrongs don’t make a right in this thoughtful study of family emotions.

On Tuesday there is a free screening of the film, Take My Eyes (15), a study of violence in the home screened under sponsorship by the Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women Partnership. It will be followed by a discussion.

Next Thursday, The Hedgehog (12A) from France is based on a best-selling book The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

Eleven-year-old Paloma lives with her well-off intellectual family in a glitzy Paris apartment block. She resolves to kill herself out of boredom on her next birthday and meantime makes a film of life’s absurdities as she sees it.

By getting to know the grumpy concierge, Renee and her flirtatious relationship with a new tenant, her view on life and death undergoes a dramatic change.

Lonsdale, Annan.

The Adventures of Tin Tin 3D (PG) appears here from Monday and you can also experience The Three Musketeers 3D (12A) and the sentimental Dolphin Tale 3D (U) in which a friendly dolphin gets seriously injured but a brave little girl is determined that she is going to help.

For a bit of daft fun Johnny English is still your man.